~DRUM^CIRCLING~

‎...DEjemBE's REsonant VOICE...
...as DRUM^BEAT is LIFE^heART sound...
...ANCESTOR^TALK as TOUCH^SPEAKS...

~MAAFA*PTSD*HEAL*INN*BALM*CURE~

...POETICS, My CompanIon...
...My Near and Dear TRUE BEST Friend...
...TRUTH Inn UnIversal WORD...
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...own that which money can't buy...
...BE FULL FREE w/Inn LOVE's LIGHT...
...the ATTRACTIVE LAWs REspond...
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...OUR Wish To Live For GENERATIONS...
...ORDER DEVINEly Blest...
...even as the constant MAAFA blesses...
...The STRUGGLE BEing SACRED HEJIRA withInn transcenDANCE  REmemory...
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...ANCESTORS' tears LIFT*US...
...etheREAL LIBATION...
...WE strut UP  eARTh's GRANDE Altar...
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...Tell ONLY the UnIverse...
...PEACE is JUSTICE WELL withInn...
...1 door closes, PEACE BegIns...
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...PsychicVampires, REwomBorn...
...cruEL negative fixd need...
...dePRESSion need NO*NEW friend...
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...municipalities crash...
...transFORMers ALL mak FUNCTION...
...7 candles blaze BRIGHTly...
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...ALL gone GREEN...
...street rivers flow ragingly...
...RED UnIty Inn the BLACKness...
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...Sooo SOON gone when PRIDE ALL lost...
...when FEAR replaces NIA...
...some SOON*TIME CIRCLEs fill UP...
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...maturation TOPS aging...
...we GROW not so old as UP...
...each day WE BEgin AGAIN...
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...LIVE yOUR LIFE CREATIVEly...
...tHERE Is heART Inn the GIVE*Inn...
...the MIRAcUloUS   IS LOVE...
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...the UnIverse Builds and Heals...
...no other assent required...
...RElease Dead Dependancies...
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...my HOPE REsides Inn HEAVEN...
...my HEAVEN reSOUNDs withInn
..offTIMEs there ARE disTRACTIONs...
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...disTRACTIONS are but markers...
...RED flag reMINDers BEgIn...
...guiDANCE REpeats ~ abunDANCE...
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...MOON BE*Inn slumber SEEN Hue...
...correctI*Ng each DREAM deferred...
...chanters SayInn YES WE CAN!...
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...irreTRIEvABLE TIME spent...
...BETter GOne NOT forGOTten...
...LESSons TAUGHT LESSons lEARNed...
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~TREE of RE~MEMORY~

THE BOTTLE TREE

In 1878, Memphis, Tennessee was devastated by a Yellow Fever Epidemic...affected families hung blue medicine bottles on tree limbs near their homes...they were of the mindset that this practice would ward off the evil spirits associated with the plague...

Some hung then...and still hang bottles from family fruit trees...believing, should anyone eat from the tree without the owner's permission, that the protective spirits residing within the bottles would cause the perpetrator's bowels to literally explode!
This practice has it's roots in belief systems yet alive, brought over with captive Africans and perpetuated by many centuries of Amer*Afrikan offspring...generational victims of the horrific Trans Atlantic Slave Trade (beginning in 1502)...

Some thought then and many still say now...the hung bottles recieve voice from the wind...and when water is poured into the bottles, "jes' so" the ancestor's voices are given to speak within the rythm of the wind...seemingly, guiding and protecting all of heART and mind who would but listen and hear...enabling many to remember and too, recall...

Cross cultural interminglings have made the preservation & perpetuation of the spiritual and asthetic appeal of bottle trees so significant that latter day versions of them are recognized as cultural purveyors and visual symbols of ECO*ENVIRO*ARTS
movements...

...heART tree of hoME...
...that tree of magic...
...that tree of music...
...that tree of light & lore...
...THAT BOTTLE TREE...
...that tree of memory...
...of life...
...of love...
...of heART...
...THE BOTTLE TREE IS THE TREE OF AMER*AFRIKAN...
...OURSTORY...
...COMMUNITY Sharing / Caring / Protection...
...&...
HISTORICAL * GENEALOGY!
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~DIS*EZD~

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